By the time the light finally reached Mars, the glint would be a million times dimmer than the faintest light visible to the human eye.
In elementary geometry the concept of a curve is not clearly defined and is sometimes defined as "length without width" or as the "boundary of a surface" . In elementary geometry the study of a curve essentially reduces to consideration of examples (a straight line, an interval, a polygon, a circle, etc.). Since it does not have general methods at its disposal
The best way to rewrite this sentence to avoid duplication is "Selena was surprised when she attempted to duplicate a copy of a dish she learned in culinary school."
A surprise by definition is unexpected, so it's a bit redundant to say an unexpected surprise. Also, saying culinary twice isn't necessary. It is better to just use it to describe the school and from there it can be inferred that the dish is culinary.
The bolded passage is the rising action.
In a narrative, the rising action is the event, or series of incidents, which come directly after the exposition and before the climax. Its purpose is to set up suspense in the plot (in this fable, you can sense the tension in phrases like "he seized it with his paw and was about to kill it"). It is usually composed of character decisions and personality traits (here, the mouse's cunning and the lion's arrogance).
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